{"id":5408,"date":"2010-08-04T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15.184"},"modified":"2010-08-04T16:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T23:18:21","slug":"thunderbird-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/08\/thunderbird-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our second add-on release!  This is our first release of a new add-on called <a href=\"\/messaging\/thunderbird-contacts\/\">Thunderbird Contacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird Contacts was started by the Mozilla Labs team as <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/contacts\/\">Firefox Contacts<\/a>, an experiment with contacts inside the browser.  We&#8217;ve adapted their add-on to work inside of Thunderbird and added some new features just for Thunderbird.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of add-on is to experiment in evolving the address book of Thunderbird beyond what it currently is today.  Thunderbird Contacts isn&#8217;t a standalone address book, instead it understands that your contacts live on the web as much as they do inside Thunderbird.  The add-on can pull in contact data from various services where your contacts already exist.<\/p>\n<p>Currently it connects with the following services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thunderbird Address Book<\/li>\n<li>Native Address Books (Mac Address book)<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>GMail<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li>Plaxo<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How it works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you install the add-on you&#8217;ll be shown this list of services.  You can connect to whichever services you&#8217;d like to pull in contacts to your local Thunderbird.<\/p>\n<p>As you pull in contacts from each of the services Thunderbird Contacts will attempt to merge the same contacts from different services into a single contact.<\/p>\n<p>Then as you view contacts the add-on will go &#8220;spider&#8221; out to various services for more information about your contact; this can find flickr photos and websites for the person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Future versions of this add-on will likely experiment with organizing the contacts in different ways.  Right now there&#8217;s a simple list or card like view and we&#8217;d like to take those interfaces further.  If you have any thoughts or comments let us know in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.uservoice.com\/forums\/68185-messaging-add-ons\">feedback channel<\/a><\/strong>.  If you&#8217;re interested in trying something just fork the code and start working.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and a screen cast explaining the add-on check out the <a href=\"\/messaging\/thunderbird-contacts\/\">Thunderbird Contacts<\/a> project page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our second add-on release! This is our first release of a new add-on called Thunderbird Contacts. Thunderbird Contacts was started by the Mozilla Labs team as Firefox Contacts, an experiment with contacts inside the browser. We&#8217;ve adapted their &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/08\/thunderbird-contacts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,19428],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}